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Chapters 1-19

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Backman, Fredrik. Anxious People. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019. Hardcover.

• In Chapter 1, the narrator tells readers the story is about a bank robber, a hostage drama, and police officers on their way to storm an apartment.

• The story is mostly about idiots, but the narrator wants readers to realize that because there is so much to cope with, it is easy to become an idiot.

• The narrator says that it only takes one bad idea to fail at being an adult.

• For example, the 39-year-old who left home clutching a pistol and who intended to rob a bank.

• When the bank turned out to be a cashless bank, the bank robber fled to an apartment building and took prospective buyers hostage.

• When the police stormed the apartment, the robber had disappeared.

• In Chapter 2, ten years...

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